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Muscle Contraction

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What type of muscle moves the body?
Skeletal muscle
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What is another name for skeletal muscle?
Striated, striped, or voluntary muscle
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What connects skeletal muscles to bones?
Tendons
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What connects bones to other bones?
Ligaments
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What do ligaments do?
Hold bones together
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How do skeletal muscles move joints?
By contracting and relaxing
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What role does the skeleton play in muscle movement?
It acts as levers
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Why is the skeleton incompressible?
To provide a surface for muscle pull
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What are muscles working together to move a bone called?
Antagonistic pairs
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What is the contracting muscle in a pair called?
Agonist
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What is the relaxing muscle in a pair called?
Antagonist
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Which muscles move the lower arm?
Biceps and triceps
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What happens when the biceps contract?
The arm bends at the elbow
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What happens when the triceps contract?
The arm straightens at the elbow
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What role does the biceps play when it contracts?
Agonist
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What role does the triceps play when it relaxes?
Antagonist
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What role does the triceps play when it contracts?
Agonist
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What role does the biceps play when it relaxes?
Antagonist
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What stimulates muscles to contract?
Neurones
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What is skeletal muscle made of?
Large bundles of long cells
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What are skeletal muscle cells called?
Muscle fibres
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What is the cell membrane of muscle fibres called?
Sarcolemma
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What does the sarcolemma do?
Folds inward into sarcoplasm
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What is the sarcoplasm?
Muscle cell’s cytoplasm
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What do T tubules help spread?
Electrical impulses
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Why are electrical impulses spread?
To reach all muscle fibre parts
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What is the sarcoplasmic reticulum?
A network of internal membranes
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What does the sarcoplasmic reticulum store?
Calcium ions
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Why are calcium ions needed?
For muscle contraction
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What do muscle fibres have many of?
Mitochondria
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Why do muscle fibres need mitochondria?
To provide ATP for contraction
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What is the nucleus characteristic of muscle fibres?
Multinucleate
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What organelles do muscle fibres have?
Myofibrils
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What are myofibrils made of?
Proteins
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What are myofibrils specialized for?
Contraction
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What do myofibrils contain?
Thick myosin and thin actin filaments
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What are thick filaments made of?
Myosin protein
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What are thin filaments made of?
Actin protein
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What does myosin have for movement?
Heads that move back and forth
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How do actin filaments appear under a microscope?
Dark bands where myosin overlaps actin
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What are dark bands called?
A-bands
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What forms the light bands in myofibrils?
Actin filaments only
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What are light bands called?
I-bands
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What marks the ends of sarcomeres?
Z-line
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What is the center of the sarcomere called?
M-line
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What is around the M-line?
H-zone
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What is the sliding filament theory?
Filaments sliding over each other
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What does the sliding filament theory explain?
How sarcomeres shorten during contraction
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What happens to A-bands during contraction?
They stay the same length
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What happens to I-bands during contraction?
They get shorter
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What happens to the H-zone during contraction?
It gets shorter
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What happens to the sarcomere during contraction?
It gets shorter
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